Are you writing a mystery to a niche market? You know what I mean. Maybe you’re writing a cozy about quilting, or dog breeding. In my case, I write Tudor mysteries, Sherlockian mysteries, and medieval mysteries. Whether you write with a large publisher or a small one, promotion is all in your hands. Let’s take … Read more
“Hey buddy. C’mere. Wanna buy a mystery?” Yes, it feels a little like that when, as an author, I’m set up with a little table in a bookstore with piles of my books. Sometimes I’m in the front of the store (better), but sometimes in the back (deadly). These kinds of gigs are murder whether … Read more
Sometimes I think there’s too much information these days. It’s a good thing that it’s at our fingertips, but winnowing out the wheat from the chaff is the hard part. When I started writing to sell some thirty-four years ago, writing historical fiction at the time, I researched what I could. But it was no substitute … Read more